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Natural Right Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to…
- Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as…
- The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to repeal [an act…
- By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another, by force of…
- It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed by those who…
- I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.
- The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness,…
- Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.
- I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no…
- Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.
- ... legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation…
- Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence.
- Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact (casus non faederis) to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power…
- The earth belongs to the living. No man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied or the persons who succeed him in that…
- When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which they have bound themselves, the rest have a natural right…
More Natural Right Quotes
- Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. — Frederic Bastiat
- No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the… — Thomas Jefferson
- The right of revolution is an inherent one. When people are oppressed by their government, it is a natural right they enjoy… — Ulysses S. Grant
- Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so… — Thomas Jefferson
- The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to… — Thomas Jefferson
- If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason… — Samuel Adams
- Government is necessary, but the only rights we can delegate to government are the ones we possess. For example, we all have… — Walter E. Williams
- By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another,… — Thomas Jefferson
- It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed… — Thomas Jefferson
- I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties. — Thomas Jefferson
- A government of our own is our natural right; and when a man seriously reflects on the precariousness of human affairs, he… — Thomas Paine
- The indigenous peoples understand that they have to recover their cultural identity, or to live it if they have already recovered it.… — Samuel Ruiz